Well, nothing new, honestly...

... just trying to keep tab on myself. Work is so la la, could be better but it could also be worse, so I'm not complanining.

I think I'm just about to give up on the Edhellond ficathon. The 3 of us who'd be willing to do something to celebrate our 10th anniversary are simply not enough. Not if nobody else give a flying... you know what. Ah, well, it was too good to work anyway.

OTOH, I'm finally getting a new bed. the_wild_iris and ithilwen have seen the bedroom monstrosity, so they know it's time for a change. The new bed will be slightly less monstrous, with hopefully a harder mattress, which will be a Good Thing for my back. Not that I'd have back problems, thank goodness, but I'd like to stay that way. I prefer giving back rubs to all my colleagues to being dependant on such things myself.

Other than that, I'm simply tired and disappointed on many levels. But that's life.

Merlin, Season 5 spoilers

Since I'm finally updating again, let's talk about it, shall we? I've just read the first spoilers, and frankly, I'm of two minds about them. Probably because Season 4 was something of a disappointment for me. S4 was the one I liked the least. It took away the uniqueness of most characters (including the Dragon), and what I've read along this line doesn't make me hope for any better development.

They say S5 will be "darker". I'm not sure I welcome the show going even more dark than it was in S4 already. The idea of less guest characters is a good one - they've overdone it in the last season to the point where the knights became cardboard caricatures with no personality at all. No Lancelot, apparently. A shame. I liked Lancelot.

More Gwen, though. A shame. I don't like Gwen. She's such a badly-written Mary Sue that she comes close to another Gwen whom I'm so not discussing now. At least she's mostly just stupid. But if they blow her (mostly unnecessary) role up even more, she'll become a real annoyance.

They should never have gone the Cinderella route with Guinevere. It's the sound- and waterproof way to a full-blown Mary Sue. And nobody likes Mary Sues. Well, nobody but the Rustoid and his sycophants, that is. *sighs*

Perhaps I should finally tear myself away from "Sherlock" and watch "Camelot" before getting my hands on the new "Merlin" season. Either I'll come to like "Camelot", or, if it's really as bad as I've heard, it might make me yearn for "Merlin" again.